THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Ah, Morpheus-looking dude from Zeta Gundam cameo!

All of the drama is wasted because its so inconsistent and illogical. For example, I've really hated how the lazy writers made the federation into antagonists, there's been absolutely no reason for their bizzare actions in hindering the Albion this whole time. I mean I get that its all foreshadowing for Zeta Gundam, but its just not showing us coherently why stuff is happening, they're just throwing stuff at us because its dramatic.

Even the pirate-looking lady doesnt make sense, why would all of her soldiers follow her crazy actions? There's just no justifiable explanation for all this crazy shit going on, and its made all the worse because I just dont give a crap about anyone on this show! They're all so bland.

Except Morpheus-looking dude from Zeta Gundam and his smirk.

Modified by Beatnik, Dec 25, 2008 8:01 AM

"I'm starting to think mal is run by Xinil generating electricity on a bicycle." - idklol

Of the two plot holes in the ova regarding Cima and the whole Federation conspiracy, its actually addressed in some side works. I think the one for Cima was entitled "Mayfly of Space" or something and it pretty much said that she got screwed over by Zeon many times during the course of the original series and took the opportunity in this series to betray them and get revenge. For the conspiracy thing, one episode of Gundam Evolve mentioned that Jamitov and Bask ended up leaking information to Zeon purposely regarding the Gundams, so in a sense they are responsible for the whole conflict in 0083.

I still really liked this series despite these two faults and found it vastly entertaining.

One user said in a previous thread how Cima always has to "antagonize everything". How fitting.

I like nitpicking this series as well, but I actually liked these new developments. And I really don't see how this doesn't make any sense. The apparent military incompetence was actually because of power struggles, in order to raise the status of the Titans among the Federation. Make the military look bad and then their faction come to save the day. And assuming we all watched Zeta prior to this, you can see how well the Titans succeded. As for Cima, it was already highlighted how she had no ideals, so it's not so absurd to think she would switch sides if the opposition made her a better offer.

I don't know about these extra informations ZakuHead mentioned, but to me it all makes sense to a reasonable level just with what this OVA provided so far.

Beatnik said:THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Ah, Morpheus-looking dude from Zeta Gundam cameo!

All of the drama is wasted because its so inconsistent and illogical. For example, I've really hated how the lazy writers made the federation into antagonists, there's been absolutely no reason for their bizzare actions in hindering the Albion this whole time. I mean I get that its all foreshadowing for Zeta Gundam, but its just not showing us coherently why stuff is happening, they're just throwing stuff at us because its dramatic.

Even the pirate-looking lady doesnt make sense, why would all of her soldiers follow her crazy actions? There's just no justifiable explanation for all this crazy shit going on, and its made all the worse because I just dont give a crap about anyone on this show! They're all so bland.

Except Morpheus-looking dude from Zeta Gundam and his smirk.

Actually this episode gave answers to a lot of things making everything a lot clearer.
It's not easy if you don't pay much attention but i got it now.
My answer might be a few years late, but some future viewer seeing this and being as confused as you will probably be helped, so here it goes.
What you are seeing is basically the creation of the Titans.
The reasons they didn't want the Albion interfering is because they already have a deal with that pirate woman inside the Zeon forces to handle everything their way.
The Albion will be in the way of that since they are idealist simply fighting the enemies and not knowing the deal with that woman.
If you are wondering why didn't they just inform them about her? Well the answer is obvious. First by looking at the future Titans commander there it's a clear indication of why. Also the woman was there even before the use of the nuke and who would explain to idealist like Albion that they had a traitor inside and knew Delaz Fleet's plans but they let 2/3 of the fleet get nuked? So baring this two facts it is safe to assume that what we are seeing is the birth of the Titans. It seems some high rankers inside the Federation conspired to let things escalate like this despite knowing all the plans of the Delaz Fleet so a certain group of people inside the Federation will appear at the last moment with that solar thing and save the day. This group of people will get all the credit and power inside the Federation forces after their achievement and because the Zeon forces of Delaz Fleet where allowed to cause so much damage, this group will have the perfect excuse to organize an anti-Zeon specialized team called, surprise surprise, the "Titans".
As you can imagine all this can't happen if they allow other Federation forces like that black officer guy we saw or the ship of Albion to stop the Delaz Fleet before their people do it and that's why they had to stop the other Federation people from acting up and saving the day prematurely.

Besides the main characters, this series manages to explain a lot of things that happened between the original series and Zeta Gundam. Mainly, the Titans' creation, but also how Axis was able to maintain itself and develop.